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fringes
«This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.»
Author: Richard Eder
| About:
Comedy
| Keywords:
fringe, fringed, fringes, lamp, playwright, playwrights, sentimental, shades, soviet
«After starting her career as a beauty queen on the fleshy fringes of show business, Imelda grew into bigger roles, playing Jackie to her husband's Jack, Bonnie to his Clyde, Evita to his strongman.»
Author: Russell Watson
| Keywords:
bonnie, Evita, fleshy, fringe, fringed, fringes, Jackie, show business
«People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.»
Author: Ted Koppel
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
fringe, fringed, fringes, investigative, mass media, media
«I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.»
«It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
| Keywords:
acknowledged, beatnik, capitalist, convention, fringe, fringed, fringes, fringe benefit, herds, hippie, hippies, in for, marketing, obedient, obsolescence, strangely
«And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, / Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: / And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: / That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.»
«The lunatic fringe wags the underdog»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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fringe, fringed, fringes, lunatic, underdog, underdogs, wags
«The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
bellies, Carcassonne, citadel, citadels, City of New York, enormous, fringe, fringed, fringes, howling, magnificent, mob, rag, raging, rags, skyscraper, skyscrapers, The Citadel, The City, unshaven
«Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''»
«Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
fringe, fringed, fringes, lunatic, movement, reform, reforming, reform movement